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PlayStation Network Maintenance Rescheduled Due To DDoS Attacks

by GH Staff
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Sony has officially confirmed that PlayStation Network services are now back up and running after a day-long outage of the entire network yesterday. Due to these recent events, Sony has decided to postpone its scheduled PSN maintenance of August 25 to a later date. Though the company hasn’t provided any other information regarding this matter, Sony has provided the following statement via its official blog:

The PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network are back online and people can now enjoy the services on their PlayStation devices. The networks were taken offline due to a distributed denial of service attack. We have seen no evidence of any intrusion to the network and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users’ personal information.

In light of today’s issue, the networks will not undergo the regularly scheduled maintenance, which was planned for Monday, August 25. We will provide an update shortly for when the maintenance will be rescheduled.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue. Thanks for your patience and support.

In case you haven’t heard, PSN was supposedly hacked by a group named the Lizard Squad on August 24th. However, the story turned out to be a much bigger deal than initially thought. Services like Battle.net and EA Origin were also hacked on the same day by the same group. In addition, Sony Online Entertainment President, John Smedley, had his plane flight, from Dallas to San Diego, re-routed for security reasons. The FBI is now investigating this situation.

As always, stay tuned to Gamer Headlines as we will provide constant updates in regards to these recent events.